1. 2025-11-28. Twelve Table Talks, Categories of Prophets, and Unlocated Pentacle Tablets. Universal House of Justice, Research Department. Clarifies the authenticity of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Twelve Table Talks, explains Prophet classifications, and confirms that two pentacle Tablets remain unlocated in the Bahá'í World Centre Archives.
2. 2024-12. Translating the Bahá'í Writings into Languages Other Than English. Craig L. Volker, Mary Goebel Noguchi. Challenges in translation, including questions about spelling, terminology, politeness strategies employed in the original work, and idiosyncrasies of English usage; case study of passage of Bahá'u'lláh as translated into Japanese and Tok Pisin.
3. 2021-03-14. Notes on Letter from Shoghi Effendi re Parental Consent for Marriage. Universal House of Justice, Research Department. Answers re a letter from the Guardian from 1929 on: the correct order of two excerpts from this letter; confirmation that he read and approved all letters written by his secretaries; this is one of few letters where a secretary offered a personal opinion.
4. 2007. Letters Written on Behalf of the Guardian. Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. . Three questions: Letters Written on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi; Status of Research Department Memoranda; Bahá'í Writings Based in Fact? Includes clarification on the authenticity of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's published talks.
5. 1998-01-02. Contacting the Universal House of Justice; Obligatory Prayer, Greatest Name, Exemptions. Universal House of Justice. Procedures on contacting the Universal House of Justice; memorandum on obligatory prayer, reciting the Greatest Name, and exemptions from prayer.
6. 1996-10-22. Authenticity of Texts. Universal House of Justice. Status of texts of Abdu'l-Bahá's talks, of the books Bahá'í World Faith and Foundations of World Unity, of letters from the Universal House of Justice versus its Secretariat, and of letters from the Guardian.
7. 1994-12-15. Authorization of Translations and the Authority of Publications from the Research Department. Universal House of Justice, Research Department. On the process by which new translations are authorized; the authority of translations by the Guardian; and the authority of publications of the Research Department.
8. 1992. Research Department, Functions of; Etymologies of three terms. Universal House of Justice, Research Department. Two questions: (1) what is the function of the Research Department, and (2) etymologies of the three terms "world of exemplars," "'álam," and "barzakh." Includes translated excerpts of tablets of Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá.
9. 1985:12. Library and Archival Resources at the Bahá'í World Centre. William P. Collins. Overview of the nature of the Bahá'í World Centre; historical resources at the BWC; Centre for the Study of the Holy Texts; access to BWC resources; classification schemes.

1. 2001-05-00 — The inauguration of the Centre for the Study of the Texts. The facility was completed and occupied in 1999. It consists of study rooms for resident and visiting scholars, meeting and conference rooms, a large reference library, a secretariat and ancillary spaces totalling 7750 sq. metres (83,420 sq. ft) Much of the building is located below ground. It has been integrated into the mountain with a portico that reflects the classical motifs of the other buildings on the Arc. The offices of the building are provided with natural light directly or through light wells, patios and skylights. Below ground it is connected to an extension to the Archives which provides secure, climate-controlled storage vaults for the original, hand written papers that constitute the Bahá'í Sacred Texts. The architect was Hossein Amanat. [amanatarchitect.com]

   "The Centre for the Study of the Texts . . . will be the seat of an institution of Bahá'í scholars, the efflorescence of the present Research Department of the World Centre, which will assist the Universal House of Justice in consulting the Sacred Writings, and will prepare translations of and commentaries on the authoritative texts of the Faith." [AWH p52]

   "The building was completed and occupied in 1999. It now houses the Research Department, and is the temporary home of the International Bahá'í Library and other offices." [Visiting Bahá'í Holy Places p. 35; BW99-00p38-39]

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